Tag: Central Administration

Strange thing that happened to my account. I am Site Coll Admin on all web sites on an on prem server, but one day the “Site Collection Administrators” and “Site Collection Features” links were gone from two of the sites (in Swedish): First thing I checked is in Central Administration and “Change Site Collection Administrators”I …

There is an error reported in Health Analyzer on my SharePoint 2013 server regarding the Distributed Cache “current server is running low on memory”. So, the Distributed cache uses 10% of the total physical memory on the server. The Distributed Cache service uses half of that memory allocation for data storage (also known as cache …

This week I have installed my first SharePoint 2010 server and it has been great fun and very interesting! It is a test environment so it’s a small server farm setup. After having a connection issue with the SQL server (everything is closed and denied) it was a fast and easy installation. Well that was …

I think I have blogged about this before, but I cannot enough emphasize the importance of running SharePoints own backup together with your SQL database backup. Of course, some third party backup products might be able to restore in the same way as you can restore a site collection backup inside Central Admin, but it …

We had some trouble running the full backup (both from CA and stsadm), we got error messages in CA that said “Error: Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Cannot open backup device…” and in EventViewer it complained that we used a Bad …

I don’t really know how to explain this error correctly but what happens is that when you receive a mail via InfoPath Forms Services it is not presented with any swedish characters “ÅÄÖ” but instead it uses like wing dings or something. It looked like this: But after changing the setting “Web application outgoing email …

Yes, today I have been fighting with a customers small business server – but I won!! What I did? The most dreaded – uninstalled WSS 2 on a SBS server and installed a fresh WSS 3 version. Everything went perfect until I wanted to give the new portal a hostname. Did not work. Every hostname …

If you get an error message saying that MySite cannot be created due to a missing tag in the URL or error in the defined managed path, then you have to do this: Open Central AdministrationApplication ManagementDefine managed pathsAdd the path, like “personnel” Share this blog post:

This is very useful. Say you have several web sites and you don’t want to display the same search results on every web site – only the results relevant to the current site! Do this: Open Central AdministrationOpen your SSPClick on “Search settings” and then “Content sources”.There is a list of current content sources, there …

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Welcome! My name is Lise Rasmussen, @SharePointBabe, and this is my blog where I write articles about SharePoint and Office 365. I am the host of WITGirls podcast where we share news and experiences about the same topics. More info in About.